[CALUG] bootdisk

Stephen Anderson anderson.stephen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 15:29:21 CDT 2005


I always keep a tomsrtbt floppy. Call me "old school". I guess I like
tomsrtbt because it has saved me so many times in the past 5 or 6
years.
http://www.toms.net/rb/
I realize that there are other small distros and cd based solutions,
but just in case ... I will keep a tomsrtbt floppy handy until there
are no more floppy drives. :)
Steve A.

On 10/11/05, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> NO! NO! NO! Floppys are Obsolete! Grab a handful and Set Them On Fire!
>
> Simply boot the RH9 CD into Rescue Mode!
>
>         boot: linux rescue
>
> If you want to "attach" to your linux, you can simply type "chroot
> /mnt/sysimage" after it finds your linux installation.
>
> Newer linuxi are more difficult, as the devices are probed and created
> by the system. You have to figure out how to remount /proc and the devfs
> filesystems, all that udev/hotplug stuff.
>
> JIM
>
> Kelly Price wrote:
> > On 10/10/05, Russ <rmain at polaris.umuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>I want to make a bootdisk.  When I installed RH9 Ih ad an option to create
> >>an emergency bootdisk.  The system failed creating the bootdisk.  I dont
> >>know why.  Linux was having trouble formatting or seeing the disk.  I know
> >>the drive is good.  I use it with Windoze. I've looked online at HOWTO's.
> >>Should I use "make zdisk"?
> >>
> >
> >
> > First, grab a bunch of floppies and start formatting them with
> > "fdformat" as root.  If they're old ones, don't be suprized if you get
> > a few duds.  If they're new, they should all format good -- otherwize,
> > that drive has problems.
> >
> > Second, if you can boot off of the CD drive, forget floppies and burn
> > yourself a copy of Damn Small Linux or Knoppix.
> >
> > --
> > Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price
> > http://strredwolf.furrynet.com
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